花舞台当寿語六|Board game of the Flower Stage (Hanabutai atari sugoroku)
Toyohara Kunichika
1883 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Asian Art
Playbills were often published at New Year's in the form of a gameboard highlighting scenes from Kabuki plays and the actors in their starring roles. Here the central scene shows actors portraying a Buddhist monk and his vision of the guardian king Fudō and two attendants.
- Artist
- Toyohara Kunichika
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1985
